The dancing lowveld grasses had lost their colour and started to curl.  It was winter.  

I desperately wanted to linger on the path to examine them but my fellow hikers had turned their faces towards our destination on the pale blue horizon, following our guide who was kicking up red dust on a well-trodden trail.  I didn’t want to be left behind, so I spent the rest of the hike photographing the grasses as I crunched and swished through them at walking speed.  The monotonous sound of my feet hitting the trail, the warm sun on my head, me within the grasses and the grasses within me, conjured a realisation; my time here is limited and, like the winter grass, I have also started to curl.  

This series of work titled The Well Trodden Path references the veld grass and wild flowers captured in a set of photographs taken by me during treks into The Kruger and Golden Gate National Parks (South Africa) during the winter and summer seasons of 2023 and 2024.